Pete Goss
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Born | (1961-12-22) 22 December 1961 (age 62)[1] Yealmpton, Devon, England |
Website | PeteGoss.com |
Pete Goss, MBE (born 22 December 1961) is a British yachtsman who has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles (460,000 km).
A former Royal Marine, he is famous for his pioneering project Team Philips.[2] He was invested in the Legion d'Honneur for saving fellow sailor Raphaël Dinelli in the 1996 Vendée Globe solo around the world yacht race. During a severe storm in the Southern Ocean, he turned his boat around and spent two days sailing into hurricane-force winds, finally finding Dinelli in a life-raft that had been dropped by an Australian Air Force plane shortly before the yacht had sunk. Dinelli is said to have come aboard clutching a bottle of champagne.[3]
He trained the original set of amateur crews for the British Steel Challenge, and competed in the race on board Hoffbräu Lager, coming 3rd overall.
Goss lives in Torpoint, Cornwall,[4] and has three children: Alex, Livvy and Eliot.
In June 2008, Goss launched a replica of a 19th-century wooden lugger called Spirit of Mystery. Four months later, he began a voyage from Cornwall to Australia on the boat, which has no modern electrical or navigation systems.[5]
Creative works
- Close to the Wind[1] (1999)
References
- ^ a b Goss, Pete (1999). Close to the Wind. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-7867-0607-5.
- ^ "Team Philips yacht lost". BBC. 22 December 2000. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ Zimmermann, Tim (2002) The Race: the first non-stop, round-the-world, no-holds-barred sailing competition. London: Orion ISBN 978-0-7528-4165-6; p. 76
- ^ "Pete Goss plans South Pole trek". BBC. 16 May 2003. Archived from the original on 18 June 2003.
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- ^ "Official Spirit of Mystery website". PeteGoss.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008.
External links
- Official website
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- 1994: Blake & Knox-Johnston
- 1995: Coutts
- 1996: Schümann
- 1997: Goss
- 1998: Ainslie
- 1999: Kusznierewicz
- 2000: Reynolds & Liljedahl
- 2001: Scheidt
- 2002: Ainslie
- 2003: Coutts
- 2004: Scheidt
- 2005: Echavarri & Paz
- 2006: Sanderson
- 2007: Baird
- 2008: Ainslie
- 2009: Grael
- 2010: Slingsby
- 2011: Martínez de Lizarduy & Fernández
- 2012: Ainslie
- 2013: Belcher
- 2014: Spithill
- 2015: Burling & Tuke
- 2016: Lange
- 2017: Burling
- 2018: Kontides
- 2019: Gradoni
- 2020: not assigned
- 2021: Slingsby
- 2022: Tita
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